chop Posted December 4, 2011 Share Posted December 4, 2011 Can anyone suggest a good IDE for php for both a Mac and a PC? thanks, chop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRoboto Posted December 4, 2011 Share Posted December 4, 2011 I use Notepad++ for Windows, and all *nix distros. Though, you also may use vi or emacs. This is their website http://notepad-plus-plus.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonathon Posted December 4, 2011 Share Posted December 4, 2011 Gedit + Context (Free for PC) + Dreamweaver (Not free) Text Wrangler + BBedit for Mac (not free) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josee Posted December 4, 2011 Share Posted December 4, 2011 There's also NetBeans; it runs on the 3 main platforms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antonio Conte Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 Use Netbeans or Eclipse. Both free and with syntax highlighting, automatic code completion, error hinting and other important stuff. I would not recommend notepad++ if you are not and experienced PHP developer. The reason is because you lose some great functionality. When developing classes in PHP, hinting of object variables and methods are a real time-saver. It's easy to overlook $this->, self:: or parent:: in a class, and Notepad++ will not tell you when you do. Netbeans and Eclipse is also available for Java/.net and other languages with built in database-handling, compilation and such. It's good to get it all in one program. As to Jonathon's suggetions, I haven't heard about them. As Eclipse/Netbeans are available for both PC and Mac, that's an important thing for me personally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonathon Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 Yes mine are more editors, I had Netbeans a year or so, it is good especially for free. I hear PHP Storm is good think thats $99 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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